Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Get ready for Euro Truck Simulator 1.12 Update

Not much time has passed since we released ETS2 1.11 game update, yet already we are in the final testing stages of 1.12 update. We are fortunate that there are no road-blocks in the game code now delaying release, so we can try a shorter release cycle now, and avoid sitting on the features for the sake of a larger batch. The new version may contain less changes compared to its predecessor than what the feature-packed 1.11 has brought, but there is some good stuff coming, and coming soon.

ETS2 version 1.12 will bring you four new features, plus it will prepare the game binaries for "A New Type of the DLC" - not paint-jobs this time! We plan to release this DLC simultaneously with the update.

Let's list 3 of those features now:

Truck browser

Browse, build, visualize and preview any unlocked truck in the game. Also it is possible to apply and preview paint jobs for any truck. If you are a MOD maker, this is a super useful feature for fast browsing of your creations without leaving the desktop, rather than having to drive to the nearest truck shop of a given truck brand.

Trailer Browser

Browse all trailers, their types and sub-types featured in the game. Yet again if you happen you have a MOD trailer in the game, you can check it out right away in the Trailer browser without having to wait for it to spawn randomly in the game.

Photo Mode Enhancements

We are still astonished with the gorgeous shots you guys upload to World of Trucks. New Photo mode features are:

Ability to change the Color Balance of your image

Change Saturation

Change the Roll the camera, if you desire extra creativity in your composition

And at last - "The New Type of the DLC". We will be revealing it in our almost-regular Friday blog post. So see you back here in two days!

I want my own trailer for our businesses so if you want to work with John Deere if you had the Jazzycat Mod, you could! Also, flatbed's should be able to hold any cargo flatbed related though it would be nice if it had some restrictions like a normal flatbed couldn't lift like a 60 ton Train in Jazzycat's Train Mod. You would need the oversize one for that as well as many ropes and such. It could also be nice if you could deliver oversized cargo's to ferries and you could pick them up there as well. Say I was driving the Baobab tree to Denmark and I wanted to drop it off in a ferry heading to the UK. Another truck driver in your company over in the UK could pick it up for you and haul the rest of the way making Co. Management more fun!

"it will prepare the game binaries" is an interesting turn of phrase. We already know that the game has functionality to load additional content like trucks, trailers and maps at runtime, so I think it's unlikely that there would be any significant code changes required to add DLC for these content types.

This leads me to speculate that the new DLC type will be content of a type that was previously un-moddable. Given that I have no experience in modding for ETS, I'm at a loss as to what it could be. However, my wild uneducated guess would be a winter map makeover, complete with seasons that change over time.

I hope it will be multiple turning points on trucks which means double trailers and real BDF trucks. It would be a nice addition to the scandinavia dlc and makes more of a challenge to drive with a 25 meter truck

LIES Anonymous. There's been bus stops littering the cities of the Vanilla game so Euro Bus Simulator could be put on ETS2 so it would then be called Euro Transportation Simulator where you could drive a Bus or a Truck and you could change jobs at anytime though you would lose 25% of the payment and you can only switch once a in-game month so choose wisely.

My guess would be extra pivot points for wagon and drags, 25.25 combinations or the b-doubles that operate in parts of Europe as this was something hard coded into the game that modders could not get around. fingers crossed anyway.

Since there has been no official release data set by SCS, this date is bogus. They done the same thing with ATS just trying to get mugs to pre-order. Until SCS announce it to the public, there is no set date.

Seriously ..... "Great but ..." type of replies are a window into the ungracious nature of too many posters to every update SCS provides.

Simply put, it's out of order and to, not call you out, is a mistake.

The posters on this forum who care about ETS2 and what SCS are trying to do have a implied responsibility to counter this greedy and careless attitude.

There is a long list of stuff I hope and want for too but I do not go on about it here every time SCS blogs an update. That is not to say I am mute on what I hope to see.

So, how about breaking the mold, growing up and having a little class? Try it out?

The unwarranted sarcasm, the ultra exaggerated expectation dates and so on are getting old already. Copying the original is not very cool! It only serves to show the posters blatant lack of understanding. It makes you look foolish.

Look, I get it ...the message may have merit, you are impatient and want it immediately ....sometimes me also .... but the choice of words and tone used to communicate that message is very important.

In the face of a developer sticking to their word, actually delivering updates, over a year post release and with more updates to come, these careless comments are, as said, out of order!

I guess, those who choose to write this way, don't think before they type or have yet to learn why this a fact.

SCS you've done so much to improve the game, yet continue to ignore most basic requests. Please make original wheels for all trucks. There shouldn't be any copyright issues and compares to making a truck model it's piece of cake. There's a lot of mods for this but I keep my game vanilla. Please make original wheels for all trucks.

* add it: original lights and more lights (open/close) options for all trucks. for example, scania's led lights, fog lights and other lights etc.

http://newsroom.scania.com/en-group/files/2011/06/09137-013.jpg

* add it: scania R V8 side skirt and V8 black front like streamline. and an exhaust for V8 side skirt and normal! (MAN has already got it -.-)* add it: side skirts for 6x2 and 6x4 for all trucks* add it: scania R needs more details like streamline. (exterior view for back side)* add it: exclusive V8 interior for scania R* fix it: scania's rear fenders for 6x2, 6x4; they are not equal.* fix it: scania R's rear lights (what's that 2 red shiny spot on it?)* fix it: scania R's sunlight visor's position at topline model. it is not to same line with side window's top. Look at this photo and then look at in game model:

Important point for this game: Older models of trucks in the game, no longer on the market in real life. They will retain their place as legends in the game, like Renault Magnum. So the all trucks must be designed that more careful. Way or another, this game will go down in history. Please, pay more attention to the design of all trucks.

I want u to remake all the signs in every country , all the silly intersections remade , heavy breaking sounds for every truck added , add Slovenia soon as possible , the A10 in Austria fully made from Salzburg to Ljubljana :)

One suggestion for the truck paint area. Have an option for more accurate color selection, such as a RGB color selector or something like that. Sometimes it's hard to get that exact color because of the color selector.

I didn't think that you will talk to us about the next patch , am very pleased about it , hope the next patch will bring interesting features ,even if it is not bringing as much as 1.11 , keep the good work guys and thanks.

Scandinavia is not new type of DLC (as it's map DLC and we already have Going East). There would be also no need to rewrite binaries. I think it's really something totally different, but as I don't like wild speculations, I better will not guess. :D

So we can browse trailers but not allowed to buy one. Can you add a small feature to allow us buying our own trailers like you did in 18WOS? And for the DLC I wish they are useful ones, I won't mind if you put those truck models in DLC and sell them, and I hope you can do some proper front wheels for every truck, some tunning parts like vertical exhaust pipes, light boxes, modified side skirts and tail lights...and the list can go on: the SCANIA front bumper, proper 6x2, 6x4 chassis for DAF, proper chassis for VOLVO fh3, proper 6x4 chassis for SCANIA, side window for VOLVO fh4 v8 versions, bigger mobile phone inside the fh4 cabin, normal sideskirts for MAN, the missing 2 other cabins for IVECO stralis hi way, 6x2 chassis for RENAULT premium... engine badges for two RENAULTs, DAF, MERCEDES BENZ, VOLVO fh3, IVECO stralis... I'm willing to buy all these reworks and models at any cost.

Being able to browse trailers.... but NOT be able to buy one.... that would just be cruel lol. That'll be like bringing your kids to work with you at toysrus and not allowing them to play with any of the toys. You can look at them.... but you can't have any lol.

first off, great ideas, but i would like see more AI improvement, they still sit behind you and toot their horns when i am clearly trying to restart my engine or have overturned. also the only truck horns i know to be real are the Scania R/Streamlined V8 and Iveco Highway. please. the volvo and scania T cab at 0:52 is the real thing. i honestly don't know where you got the horns you put in the game or why you put them in because you recorded the trucks yourselves. all you had to say was "give us the horn" and have a mic in the cab and another 30 feet away and record from start to finish but not loop it in a noticable way "beeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeeep" more "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" I'm sorry but no one seems to have brought this up. this is 1.11 going iinto 1.12. and to that 3rd june 2023 anon i say fuck off, its a dead joke

i feel that, scs, you should add on Spain, especially since Spain was avaliable in ets1, but also we have had the new volvos & scania streamline and iveco Hiway, and the new Mercedes, daf and renault range and models, should me made avaliable very soon, i like it that SCS are keeping in touch with their valuable customers :) , keep up good work SCS team

The one that would use a second pivot point, so neither of your suggestions, unless by drawbar trailer you mean a semi-trailer ( i.e. needs landing gear to support it at front when not towed by truck) with the front-end instead supported by a dolly featuring a drawbar connection, then yes, that could be one of the trailers featured.

How about a bit more realism from the virtual drivers; make them look at mirrors as they're in reverse, put an avatar in the seat instead, or at the very least, a pair of hands on the wheel (a la Gran Turismo) instead of a "phantom driver".

Also, have them manipulate the controls - for example, the hand brake, the shifter, the directional signals, turning the wheel in different directions, adjusting the mirrors and so forth.

Yes, yes, absolutely! And animation of hands paying (and taking recipes) at toll booths too! And of course, it could finally solve that yawning when driver is tired - I suppose driver's hand should cover the mouth. Really, it's about good manners... otherwise ETS2 will end up as some anarchistic criminal GTA with ESRB "no one should play it". SCS could also invest into that mimic capturing, so we could see smiling driver's face (if everything's fine), incredibly happy face (cargo delivered with no damage and in time), worried face (delivery time nearly ends), bored face (stuck in a traffic jam) and my favourite guilty face (crashing other vehicle, exceeding speed limit etc). The last one should let the player know what he/she done wasn't good. Finally, if we talking about hands or head/face, we can't forget legs, feet, it would be discrimination and that's unacceptable. So yes, manipulation with pedals should be made too. As I said, ETS2 should stay in way of good manners and discreetness, so no shorts, sandals, crocs or converse - I suggest model of driver should be "dressed" in long cotton trousers, oxford shoes and dark socks.

why all want this ugly looking daf? MP4 and TGX euro 6 released earlier than that friendly eyes looking daf with the copy of the volvo grill. older daf looks more like a truck, not nice but a truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

If you would bother with reading the blog post, you would know the reason why are browsers useful, in fact helpful, for certain part of community. And if you would bother with reading older blog posts, you would know that for example new sounds or new countries are in development too. And if you think that to make these things is question of few weeks, well, try it.

Last but not least, speak for yourself next time. I do not need any of things you mentioned. Yes, I'm looking forward for new content, I will buy new map expansion(s) and I hope there will be some free surprises too - but I don't need them, for me it's not question of life and death, only question of entertainment. If the need of new trailers and everything is really so essential for you, okay than, I suppose I can only think you're pretty weird, but I'm not, so do not use the word "we", you're not speaking for whole community.

And for the third time... if you would bother to read what I wrote, you would know that I also want new features and contnent. The difference between you and me is that I do not need it. You wrote you need it, in other words new ETS2 content works for you as some kind of life support. Maybe you're some weird extraterrestrial form or some scientific experiment, I don't know, but that's definetely not my case, I'm a human and all my needs are to breathe, sleep, drink, eat, keep myself in habitable temperature and pay taxes. And I'm pretty sure that 99,99% of players are same as me, they don't need new ETS2 features, they only looking forward as I do. So once again: if you need something, speak for yourself next time.

They want people to forget about ATS for a while because soon they're releasing shit for ETS2 they want people to buy. Make them forget ATS is coming and then more will be likely to buy new shit for the old game, rather than wait for the new game.

I know you keep posting that ironically, trying to make American fans appear impatient and obnoxious and I'm sure you think you're being successful, but I'm one of the lucky few getting to test (read: play) ATS and it's progressing beautifully so have fun there wasting away your shitty hate-filled life!! =)

More serious gameplay increased level of realism in SCS games, that's for sure. On the other hand, I enjoyed (and time to time still enjoy) police chase in older 18WoS titles - and to be honest, I somewhat hope it will return in ATS. :-DBest solution would be to have optional police cars, so everybody could choose more "arcadish" or more serious gameplay.

Of course, there's this thing with all kind of emergency cars - they look different in every country and that would mean lots and lots of extra work. If there would be some generic police or ambulace car, I already hear vocal part of community: hey, it doesn't look like any German police car paint, hey, ambulance in Netherlands looks totaly different, what's that s**t, you can't google how Polish ambulance looks like... and so on and so on. Maybe fire trucks, with both eyes half-closed, could be represented by some generic model. Yes, absolutely, I would love to see these vehicles in ETS2 too, but I suppose it's more likely question of ATS than ETS2.

I hope you will consider doing some work on the way hired drivers work in the game! We really need improvements in this part of the game. I like to play the management part of this game, but there is just not a lot to it.So after the "Going North" DLC, might you give some love to this part of the game?Thank you in advance.

Absolutely! As of now, you can't do a lot about how hired drivers work, all you can do is relocate and hire-and-fire them in true capitalist way (and that's already all the 'capitalism' you get as far as drivers are concerned).What about we can dispatch their jobs again? Right now I get 'driver couldn't find a job, so s/he returns empty' a lot, because they are not able to find a job from their last destination back to their base. What about they do a radial search, let's say they look for jobs in 'current city +X hours around' to 'base +X hours around'? Why do they have to return to their base every time at all, on my tours I hardly ever do that anyway. I just look for the job that offers the biggest return per km, often enough in another city.The best dispatch system was in the old 18WoS games where you could choose the next job before the current was completed. Couldn't you put that back in the game, perhaps so that they offer you to give them a new job and look for one on their own if you don't react for 10 or 20 seconds?That considered, one could keep one's company small in terms of drivers and garages, because if you choose to do more of the dispatching yourself, you'll be able to keep yourself so busy with it that you don't need a lot of them. You could go as far as selling your own truck...If you don't think that's a good idea (but not only then), then I'll happily join those who would like more than the current 154 drivers' maximum, especially with more map DLC :)

Hi! First of all i would like to thank you the hard work on this game.Only one thing. I think you should really work on the MAN trucks (mostly on the interior and on the sounds).The other trucks are very well done ones. They are realistic not like the MAN

My #1 wish since I bought ETS2 back in May 2013 was for real rolling seasons, and the differences in physics that each season would bring to driving.I have tried a few winter mods, and they were OK, but real integrated seasons within the game itself would be awesome, and you would get a real feeling of the passage of time as you build your trucking empire.

Unfortunately though I watched the interview Squirrel had with Pavel Sebor last year and he seemed to suggest that incorporating actual seasons into the game wouldn't be possible in the short term :(

When Comming Trucks with Normal Trailer ?, and the Correctur of the Moonsize ?. When Sitting a Human in the Office from the Gasstation ?, When Comming More Life in The City (Tram, Bus ?). This is Better Idea for a Update.

couple ideas for 1.12: 1) cages in front of the lights 2) Fogs (because why would you need fog lights if there are no fogs?) 3) More traffic and traffic jams. :D Hope this comes in the next update, and keep up the good work, SCS!!!!!!

Super. Should I have a few suggestions for future DLC or patch: 1 put in AI and rescue vehicles (police, ambulance, fire brigade). 2 If you crashed into me any car that I paid for it fine (it happened to me that I was in the left lane, anticipating the bus and car, and when I was at the rear of the car, then departing into my lane and Of course we collided). 3 I noticed that in Poland unmarked cities on the map, through which they have at the beginning and end labeling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypellpK8jUk in this video 7:53 to 7:55 ) that is located in / village (eg in the area of Lublin is the case) - I suggest that the city remaining European countries should also sign traversed and bear marked on the map - example: the journey from Bratislava to Košice Elected pass through and no board carry, also from Banska Bystrica towards Ostrava passes through Ruzomberok and also not board that I am in the city / village ... and this couple is the rest of the EU.

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